Hair-treating machine



Dec. 2, 1930. P. E. GAlRE Q fi -k HAIR TREATING MACHINE Filed April 30, 1950 Patented Dec. 2, 1930 Russian STATES PAUL EDMUND G-AIR-E, OF YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-TREATING MACHINE Application filed April 30,

This invention is directed to an improvement in hair treating machines, and is particularly concerned with a machine which, while possessing all the essential'characteristics of a machine capable of carrying out the particular treatment, is nevertheless so small and compact, relatively speaking, that it may be readily transported from place to place as occasion may arise.

Ordinarily hair treatment, p articularly permanent waving, requires the use of more or less apparatus which is of such a nature as to require that the customer shall go to the hair treating parlors for treatment, and though it is frequently desirable for many reasons that a customer be treated in the privacy other own home, no successful attempt has been heretoi'ore made to provide an apparatus which the operator can conveniently and easily transport to the home of the customer and carry out in full the desired treatment.

The present invention aims, therefore, to provide an apparatus which possesses all the essential characteristics necessary for a com- 5 plete and proper treatment and yet in which the parts are so arranged and related that a small, compact machine is provided which may be readily and conveniently transported to the home of the customer or other desired place, thereby facilitating very materially the convenience of the customer Who may be thus treated at a particular hour selected by herself and not compelled to await her turn in the beauty parlors, as in the absence of spe- 5 cific engagement is usually the case.

The primary object of the invention is not only to provide a comparatively small,.compact machine but to insure that the parts of such machine shall. be such. and their relative position shall be in such order that'the machine is as capable of carrying out a complete and effective treatment as are the very much more cumbersome machines conventionally employed in beauty parlors and other 5 places of treatment.

The invention is illustrated in the accom-y panying drawing, wherein: 1

Figure 1 is a view in elevation, partly in section, of the machine. 4

' ljigure 2 is a view of the container.

1980. SeriaL No. 448,697.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the casing with the container removed.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the casmg. 7

The casing 1 is ofhollow,boX-like formopen at the top and closed at the bottom and r0- vided with appropriate legsupports 2. or her ledges 3 are arranged in the casing at an appropriate height above the bottom thereof to removably support a container 4. This container, which is of glass, is of a size and shape to fit more or less snugly within the casing 1 so that the bottom of the container will rest upon the corner ledges 3 and be supported above the bottom of the casing.

The container 4 terminates at its upper end in a bottle-like neck '5 having a screw cap 6 for threaded cooperation with the neck. Carried by the cap 6 and depending within the container are a plurality ofelectric heaters 7.

These heaters may be of any conventional or desired form consistent, of course, with the fact that they may be supported within a body of water to be placed within the container and have sufiicient capacity to convert saidwater into steam or vapor under energization of said heaters. The heaters are pendant from the cap 6 and the neck 5 of the container 4 is, of course, of sufiicient diameter to permit convenient removal or application of the heaters when necessary with the cap. I

Carried by the cap 6 and opening through the cap for free communication with the interior ot' the container is a pipe 8, which immediately above the cap is laterally offset and extends vertically in a section 9 and then laterally in a section 10, from the free end of which depends the flexible conduits 11 and hangers 12 for cooperation with the conventional or particular type of steam boxes employed for treating the hair. The end of the pipe section 10 which, of course, is closed may be provided with a rod 13 on which the hangers .12 may be removably supported when not desired for use.

As previously stated, the bottom of the container 4 is supported above the bottom of the casing 1, thus providing a chamber 14, in which is arranged a blower 15 operated through the medium of a motor 16 and receiving a supply of air through openings 17 in one side wall of the casing 1. The blower communicates with a pipe 18 fixed in one side wall of the casing and rising lengthwise oi the casing and container in a section 19, with such section 19 communicating at its upper end with a lateral section 20 which leads into the vapor pipe at the juncture of the sections 8 and 9.

The air pipe section 20 is provided with an appropriate valve 21 and with flexible pipe extensions 22 leading from such section 20 and terminally provided for connection with the usual steam boxes employed for the treatment of the hair. One wall of the casing is provided exteriorly with a manually operable switch 23 having service conductors 2et which are designed to be connected through a removable plug to the ordinary house socket. The switch controls through wires 25 the energization of the heaters 7 and also through wires 26 the energization of the motor 16.

The circuits herein are indicated merely diagrammatically, it being understood that they are complete in themselves and that the switch is arranged in any conventional or preferred manner to selectively'control the heaters and blower.

It will, of course, be appreciated that the apparatus as a whole is comparatively small and compact. The pipe section 9, which is connected to the pipe section 8 and the air pipe section 20 through a threeway coupling, may be readily disconnected when the apparatus is being transported so that in effect the sectional dimensions of the apparatus are substantially those of the casing l and the vertical height of the apparatus is substantially that of the casing and container. As a. comparatively small amount of water is necessary in the treatment for any one patient, it will be appreciated that the container need not be of any considerable size and, therefore, the casing itself will be con respondingly small in both sectional and vertical dimensions.

In use. it will be understood that water is placed in the container, after which the cap is applied and the pipe sections connected, which may be readily and conveniently done. If desired, and as preferred, the cap 6 may be provided with a central opening 2'? ar ranged to close by a plug 28 so that the filling or the placing of water within the container may be carried out without the necessity of displacing the cap, the removability of the latter being merely for convenience in the event it is necessary to adjust, repair or replace the heaters.

iltter operation of the switch to energize theheaters, the water in the container is converted into vapor or low pressure steam and delivered through the conduits 11 to the hair treating boxes in which the hair of the customer has been previously coiled about the usual pins to be placed in such boxes. In the initial operation, the valve 21 is wide open and steam and air mixed together flow into the curling boxes, tending to heat these boxes to a certain degree and reduce possibility of condensation to a minimum. The valve 21 is then shut oil and steam only delivered to the curling boxes for permanently curling heating elements 7 without, however, inter rupting the operation of the blower 15. The valve 21 is slowly opened and the accumulated steam in the conduits beyond the container is forced out and dissipated and the cool air tends to materially and quickly reduce the heatof the curling boxes and thus permit a more rapid termination or" the operation than if the boxes were allowed to cool naturally.

The apparatus as a whole provides an exceedingly small and compact machine which may be as readily transported from place to place as an ordinary suitcase. There is nothing to be displaced or get out of order, and as the container l is of glass the quantity of water remaining in the container is visible at all times to the operator to thereby provide for a proper vapor or steam generation.

The apparatus may be placed on any convenient support or on the floor and proper and correct treatment given at any time and under any and all conditions. Thus a customer may make an engagement for a treatment in her own home at a particular hour convenient to her and to the operator, and the conveniently handled and transported apparatus of this invention may be present at the selected period and ii'i'nnediately serve the customer.

I claim 2- 1. A. hair treating machine including a casing, a container reniovably seated in the casing, a blower arranged in the casing beneath the container. electric heating means arranged in the container, and pipe connections directing the vapor from the container and the air from the blower to the point of use.

2. A hair treating apparatus including a box-like casing, a container fitted removably therein and supported above the bottom of the casing, a blower carried by the casing between the container and easing bottom, a

pipe from the blower leading through the casing and extending vertically of the container, a cap carried by the container, electric heaters supported by the cap and depending within the container, and a vapor pipe leading from the cap and communicating with the pipe from the blower.

3. A hair treating apparatus including a box-like casing, a container fitted removably therein and supported above the bottom of the casing, a blower carried by the casing between the containerand casing bottom, a pipe from the blower leading through the casing and extending vertically of the container, a cap carried by the container, electric heaters supported by the cap and depending within the container, avapor pipe leading from the cap and communicating with the pipe from the blower, and a switch carried by the casing to control the energization of the heaters and of the blower.

A. A hair treating apparatus including a box-like casing, a container fitted removably therein and supported above the bottom of the casing, a blower carried by the casing between the container and easing bottom, a pipe from the blower leadin through the casing and extending vertically of the container, a cap carried by the container, electric heaters supported by the cap and depending within the container, a. vapor pipe leading from the cap and communicating with the pipe from the blower, a valve in the pipe leading from the blower intermediate the juncture of said pipe with the vapor pipe and the blower, and air outlets fromthe blower pipe in advance of the valve.

5. A hair treating apparatus including a box-like casing, a container fitted removably therein and supported above the bottom of the casing, a blower carried by the casing between the container and easing bottom, a pipe from the blower leading through the casing and extending vertically of the container, a cap carried by the container, electric heaters supported by the cap and depending within the container, a vapor pipe leading from the cap and communicating with the pipe from the blower, a valve in the pipe leading from the blower intermediate the juncture of said pipe with the vapor pipe and the blower, air outlets from the blower pipe in advance of the valve, and flexible pipes communicating with said outlets.

6. A hair treating machine comprising a. rectangular box-like casing of comparatively small dimensions, a glass container removably fitted within and supported by the ing, a. blower arranged between the bottom of the container and the bottom of the easing, a pipe communicating with the blower and leadingthrough the casing and extending vertically thereof beyond the wall of the casing, the upper end of the pipe overlying the container, a cap removably secured to the container, electric heaters carried by the cap and depending within the container, a vapor pipe supported by the cap and communicatand leading through the casing and extendi ing vertically thereof beyond the wall of the casing, the upper end of the pipe overlying the container, a cap removably secured to the container, electric heaters carried by the cap and depending within the container, a vapor pipe supported by the cap and communieating with the air pipe above the cap,a common pipe extending beyond said communication between the air and Vapor pipes and leading to a point of use, a valve in the air pipe in advance of its juncture with the vapor pipe, and air outlet conduits communieating with the air pipe in advance of the valve.

8, A hair trcatingmachine comprising a rectangular box-like casing of comparatively small dimensions, a glass container removably fitted within and supported by the casing, a blower arranged between the bottom of the container and the bottom ofthecasing, a pipe communicating with the blower and leading through the casingrand extending vertically thereof beyond the wall of the casing, the upper end of the pipe overlying the container, a cap removably secured to the container, electric heaters carried by the cap and depending within the container, a vapor pipe supported by the cap and communicating with the air pipe above the cap, a common pipe extending beyond said communication between the air and vapor pipes and leading to a point of use, and a switch carried by the casing and controlling the blower and electric heaters.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PAUL EDMUND GAIRE. 1,. s.] 

